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Athlete Bio

Sharika Nelvis

Basic Information

Status: Active Gender: Female Age: 35 Date of Birth: 5/10/1990

Athletics Information

Event: Indoor Track & Field, Outdoor Track & Field Coach: Will Williams Agent: John Regis Sponsor: adidas

Residences

Hometown: Memphis, TN High School: Northside High School College: Arkansas State University

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Diamond League meeting winner

2x

National Indoor champion

1x

In Top 8 World Championships

1x

IAAF World Relays winner

1x

NCAA champion

1x

NCAA Indoor champion

World Athletics Championships

  • 2019 IAAF World Relays (gold; shuttle hurdles and mixed shuttle hurdles)
  • 2018 World Indoor Championships, fourth
  • 2015 IAAF World Championships, eighth

Other Career Highlights

  • 2018 USATF Indoor 60m Hurdles Champion (7.70; American Record)
  • 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials 100m Hurdles, fifth 
  • 2014 NCAA Outdoor Championships, gold (100m Hurdles)
  • 2014 NCAA Indoor Championships, gold (60m Hurdles)
  • 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships, sixth (100m Hurdles)
  • 2013 NCAA Indoor Championships, eleventh (200m); sixteenth (long jump)
  • 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championships, fourteenth (100m); sixteenth (100m Hurdles)

Personal

Born in Memphis, Tennessee...Daughter of Alice Nelvis and Morris Brunson...Has three brothers and one sister...Majored in sociology with a minor in photojournalism...joined the A-State Track and Field staff as a volunteer assistant prior to the 2020-21 season...Owning an astounding 24 Sun Belt Conference individual championships (13 indoor, 11 outdoor), Nelvis stole the show with the Red Wolves from 2011 to 2014 in the sprint hurdles as well as the long jump...In 2014, a season in which she won both the NCAA Indoor 60m hurdles and Outdoor 100m hurdles crowns, the Memphis, Tennessee, native became the first A-State athlete to be named a finalist for The Bowerman, known as the highest honor for a collegiate track and field athlete…In 2018, Nelvis won the women’s 60m hurdles with a NACAC and American record time of 7.70 at the 2018 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships and repeated as champion in 2019.

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